locale\lo`cale"\ (?), n. [f. local.]1. a place, spot, or location.2. a principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.locale n : the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) [syn: venue, locus]

localeThe set of information that corresponds to a given language and country. The code locale setting affects the language of terms such as keywords and defines locale-specific settings such as the decimal and list separators, date formats, and character sorting order.The system locale setting affects the way locale-aware functionality behaves, for example, when you display numbers or convert strings to dates. You set the system locale using the Control Panel utilities provided by the operating system.Although the code locale and system locale are generally set to the same setting, they may differ in some situations. For example, in Visual Basic, Standard Edition and Visual Basic, Professional Edition, the code is not translated from English-U.S. The system locale can be set to the user's language and country, but the code locale is always set to English-U.S. and can't be changed. In this case, the English-U.S. separators, format placeholders, and sorting order are used.

- Constructor for class java.util.Locale public Locale (String language, String country)Construct a locale from language, country. NOTE: ISO 639 is not a stable standard; some of the language codes it defines (specifically iw, ji, and in) have changed. This constructor accepts both the old codes (iw, ji, and in) and the new codes (he, yi, and id), but all other API on Locale will return only the OLD codes.Parameters: language - lowercase two-letter ISO-639 code. - uppercase two-letter ISO-3166 code.country - uppercase two-letter ISO-3166 code.

- Constructor for class java.util.Locale public Locale (String language, String country, String variant)Construct a locale from language, country, variant. NOTE: ISO 639 is not a stable standard; some of the language codes it defines (specifically iw, ji, and in) have changed. This constructor accepts both the old codes (iw, ji, and in) and the new codes (he, yi, and id), but all other API on Locale will return only the OLD codes.Parameters: language - lowercase two-letter ISO-639 code. - uppercase two-letter ISO-3166 code.country - uppercase two-letter ISO-3166 code. - vendor and browser specific code. See class description.variant - vendor and browser specific code. See class description.

The Windows operating-system attribute that defines certain behaviors related to language. The locale defines the code page, or bit patterns, used to store character data, and the order in which characters are sorted. It also defines language-specific items such as the format used for dates and time and the character used to separate decimals in numbers. Each locale is identified by a unique number, called a locale identifier or LCID. SQL Server 2000 collations are similar to locales in that the collations define language-specific types of behaviors for instances of SQL Server 2000.

In computing, a locale is a set of parameters that defines the user's language, country and any special variant preferences that the user wants to see in their user interface. Usually a locale identifier consists of at least a language identifier and a region identifier.